Feral dogs living near Chernobyl differ genetically from their ancestors who survived the 1986 nuclear plant disaster—but ...

are the longest-living animals on Earth, and their lifespans are surprising, if not unbelievable. Chernobyl is an area that has been deemed unsuitable for living. Nearly four decades after an ...

Dogs living near the Chernobyl nuclear plant aren’t radioactive mutants—but their genetic differences reveal a surprising ...

Many pet owners were forced to abandoned their animals after the plant exploded and they rushed to evacuate the area – now known as the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. Many of the dogs who have inter ...

Rival packs of stray dogs scavenging for scraps around the Chernobyl fallout zone may be evolving faster than other animals to survive ... increased in the 36 years after the accident.

Dozens of dogs that have prowled Chernobyl for decades may have survived ... workers died from radiation poisoning in the days after following the explosion. The catastrophic leak of toxic ...